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metrification
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun metrification has 2 senses
- metrification(n = noun.act) Array - writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition); Array is a kind of authorship, composition, penning, writing
- metrification(n = noun.act) metrication - the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds; Array is a kind of change
Derived form verb metrify1
CIDE DICTIONARY
metrification, n.
- Composition in metrical form; versification. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- The act or process of converting the standard system of units of a country to those of the metric system; metrication. [PJC]
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